Unreal Engine VR Cookbook: Developing Virtual Reality with UE4

Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
About the Author xix

Part I: Getting Started 1
1: Terminology and Best Practices 3
Terminology 4
Best Practices 10
Summary 11

2: Head Mounted Display Setup 13
Gear VR 14
Rift and Vive 32
Summary 42

3: Toolkit 43
Generic Function Library 44
Oculus Function Library 45
Steam VR Function Library 47
Summary 47

Part II: Recipes 49
4: Trace Interaction 51
Understanding Trace Interaction 52
Understanding Interfaces 55
Setting Up Trace Interaction 57
Setting Up a Basic Interactive Object 75
Summary 79
Exercises 80

5: Teleportation 85
Setting Up Teleportation 86
Visualizing the Teleport 92
Simple Teleportation Volume 95
Summary 101
Exercises 101

6: Unreal Motion Graphics and 2D User Interfaces 103
Challenges with 2D UI in VR 104
History and Compatibility of UMG 105
Basic VR Menu 105
Custom Menu Interaction 113
Summary 123
Exercises 123

7: Character Inverse Kinematics 125
Introduction to Inverse Kinematics 126
Setting Up Head IK 127
Setting Up Hand IK 137
Summary 144
Exercises 145

8: Motion Controller Interaction 147
Why Motion Controller Interaction Works 148
What to Look Out For: The Importance of Affordance 148
Shared Input of the Current Generation of Motion
Controllers 149
Setting Up the World Interaction Project 149
Interacting with Objects 151
Creating the Interactive Objects 163
Summary 187
Exercises 188

9: VR Locomotion 189
Simulator Sickness 190
Locomotion Types 190
Locomotion Implementation 194
Summary 205
Exercises 205

10: VR Optimization 207
Requirements of VR Rendering 208
Latency Mitigation 209
Performance Improvements 215
VR Project Settings 221
Summary 229
Exercises 229

Part III: Appendices 231
Appendix A: VR Editor 233
Enabling the VR Editor 234
Controlling the VR Editor 235
Summary 241

Appendix B: Resources 243
Epic 244
Oculus 244
Valve 244
Google 245
Community 245
Physical Meetups 245
Conferences 246

Index 247